Bringing Down Divides: Special Issue Commemorating the Work of Gregory Maney (1967 - 2017)
Lisa Leitz · Eitan Y. Alimi
Oct 2019 · Emerald Group Publishing
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The 43rd Volume of Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change continues the series' tradition of publishing peer reviewed chapters, which advance our understanding of peace, political contention, and social change, by offering new ways to research and theorize attempts to challenge divides. Dedicated to the memory of Gregory M. Maney, Bringing Down Divides engages with and continues Maney's work on international conflicts, peace and justice movements, and community-based research.
The volume is organized around three types of divides:
The volume is organized around three types of divides:
- Attributional divides, meaning the quality or feature of people around which resources, rights, and powers are distributed unequally, such as race, gender, and ethno-nationality.
- Ideological divides which encompass the systems of meaning, ideas, and beliefs that split and polarize people, such as conservative vs. progressive and antiwar vs. pro-war.
- Epistemological divides, namely the types, productions, and usages of knowledge over which conflicts occur, such as the academic-activist divide.
About the author
Lisa Leitz is the Delp-Wilkinson Professor of Peace Studies at Chapman University. She is the Series Editor of RSMCC and the author of Fighting for Peace: Veterans and Military Families in the Anti-Iraq War Movement (2014). Eitan Y. Alimi is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He has published in numerous reputable journals and co-authored two books: The Dynamics of Radicalization (2015) and Popular Contention, Regime, and Transition (2016).
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